Streetscape Committee

What makes Butchers Hill a great place to live? Certainly friendly and engaged neighbors, plus an active neighbor association, but don’t underestimate the impact and retention power of an attractive, safe, and healthy natural and built environment. With your support, these are the areas the Streetscape Committee is committed to:

Our natural environment:

  • Maintaining and expanding our mature tree canopy by planting new trees, grinding stumps, expanding existing and creating new pits. 

  • Educating about our vital tree canopy via the newsletter and with a new project - placing tree identification tags on selected significant street trees.

  • Creating and helping to maintain greened alleys, corners, and curbside planting strips.

  • Maintaining, along with the Department of Parks and Recreation and Baltimore Green Space, Butchers Hill’s two pocket parks, Halcott Square and Castle Street Park.

  • Selecting native plants that provide habitat and food for birds and pollinators for our green spaces, which has earned them Audubon’s Bird-Friendly Garden certification. 

  • Maintaining the health and cleanliness of our rain gardens.

Our built environment:

  • Creating safer intersections for pedestrians, bikers, and vehicles. 

  • Enhancing compliance with city trash and recycling can regulations for healthier and more attractive streetscapes. 

  • Keeping residents current on trash, recycling, and snow and leaf removal ordinances via social media and the newsletter. 

  • Organizing five community dumpsters and two community-wide cleanups annually.

  • Facilitating public art such as street and wall murals.

  • Maintaining our sidewalk and alley cafe lights and helping residents convert to automatic on-off controls for front door lights or in the absence of a front light to install one.

Thanks to the many wonderful volunteers who help carry out these vital greening and beautification initiatives, generous funding by the Butchers Hill Association and numerous grants, Butchers Hill continues to be a desirable place to live, work, and play.

NOT PERMITTED IN COMMUNITY DUMPSTERS
Large appliances (stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, dish washers, washers/dryers): These must go to sanitation yards.
Anything Automotive (batteries, tires, wheels, etc.): must go to automotive junk yards.
Anything Liquid:  Paint cans may be left open to dry out, then put in regular trash. All other liquids must be in a labeled container and go to household hazardous waste disposal at sanitation yards (see dates below).
No Metal or Paper: because they are recyclable and need to go out for recycle collection or taken to a sanitation yard. We are extremely fortunate that our neighbor, Adam, has volunteered to be at the dumpster to collect and properly dispose of metal. No large quantities of dirt, rubble or rehab debris. Small household amounts are OK.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE
2024 Dates and Times:

April: 6th and 7th (9am-5pm)
May: 4th and 5th (9am-5pm)
June: 1st and 2nd (9am-7pm)
July: 6th and 7th (9am-7pm)
August: 3rd and 4th (9am-7pm)
September: 7th and 8th (9am-5pm)
October: 5th and 6th (9am-5pm)

Location: 2840 Sisson St. Convenience Center (take I-83 north, exit at 28th St., turn left onto Sisson St.)
Accepted Items: Batteries, propane tanks, and labeled fluids (automotive, glycols, cleaning, fungi/herbi/insecti/pesticides, paint thinner, pool chemicals, oil-based paints, rust removers).
Unaccepted Items: Photographic chemicals, gasoline, kerosene, ammunition, asbestos, explosives, sulfuric acid, and industrial & medical wastes.

RECYCLING DROP-OFF CENTERS
Open Tuesday-Saturday, 8am-2pm on your recycling week: DPW Property Mgmt. Facility at 115 S. Kresson St. and DPW Maritime Operations Facility, 3311 Eastbourne Ave. As well as Sisson Street Drop-off Center and Eastern Sanitation Yard at 6101 Bowleys Lane, open Mon.- Sat. 9am-5pm for recycling, metal, electronics & household trash.

To join the Streetscape Committee’s efforts, please contact: butchershillstreetscape@gmail.com